Sutton Waldron
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| Sutton Waldron | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 Sutton Waldron | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST862158 |
| Location: | 50°56’33"N, 2°11’56"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 200 |
| Post town: | Blandford Forum |
| Postcode: | DT11 |
| Dialling code: | 01747 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Dorset |
Sutton Waldron is a village in northern Dorset, on the A350 road between Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, eight miles north of Blandford Forum and five miles south of Shaftesbury.
The 2011 census recorded that the parish had 93 dwellings, 87 households and a population of 200.
In 1086 in the Domesday Book Sutton Waldron is recorded as Sudtone;[1] it had 24 households, one mill, six ploughlands, six acres of meadow and forty acres of woodland, all in the county's Gillingham Hundred. The lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.[2]
The parish church dates from 1847 and is constructed in the Decorated Gothic style.[3]
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References
- ↑ "Dorset S-Z". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset3.html. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "Place: Sutton [Waldron"]. Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST8615/sutton-waldron/. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ North Dorset District Council (1982–83). North Dorset District Official Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 49.
- Sutton Waldron: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 4, pages 84-88